The problem is how do you know when you've ceased to be a newbie. I think the Debian folks are some of the friendliest to newbies, and as a result I think they (the Debian folks) tend to have the best mailing-lists & newsgroups. Newbie lists/newgroups seem (to me at least) to be not much more than massive flame-fests. In my opinion the best thing for a newbie is to jump right in there with the "big-boys". Sure you might get harshly reprimanded for not reading the documentation a few times, but at least you'll get some real advice instead of half-baked pseudo-advice from pounds of people who wish they knew what was going on.
Sorry to rant, but I think the sequestering of newbies has pretty severe fundamental problems. Sean Pollywog wrote: > > > I was thinking the same thing a few days ago. debian-newbie sounds good to > me.
